While the entire notion of a monolithic "privilege" of any sort is dubious, and those who champion such notions invariably seem to cite a variety of things as some sort of demonstration of how said "privilege" works. It's almost as though individual people aren't actually caricatures, and such nuances about what privileges one may or may not have shouldn't be conflated in that manner. But hey, that's a topic for another post. This time, I'm willing to play along...
With that in mind, I submit a category of privilege that I haven't seen anyone else describe. I call it "stupid privilege." The link above contains some blatant misuse of statistics, along with poor reasoning in general. But the author and fans of this piece, and I've seen others like it, are unaware of this. Those of us who actually understand statistics are incensed by this sort of thing, but to the people who apparently consider this to be a good argument, the source of our frustration is invisible. I've always heard that privilege is invisible to those who have it, and I think that's what's going on here!
Edit (February 12th, 2015): I need to post more on this blog. Anyway, I just saw something that reminded me of this post.
So apparently "A Feminist Fantasy" is to have someone to reject.
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